The age of exploration and exploitation: Younger-looking leaders endorsed for change and older-looking leaders endorsed for stability

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 805-816

  Spisak, Brian R ^a   Grabo, Allen E ^a   Arvey, Richard D ^b   van Vugt, Mark ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Age; Evolution; Exploration exploitation dilemma; Face perception; Leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919627703     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2014.06.001     Document Type: Article

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